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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22
The Poetic Either.

The either, that pretty little fiat harp
which is now taught in our cities. and
which so many young ladies are learn
ing. originated in the Alpine countries,
and was, toward the middle of our
century. used by travelling Tyrolese
singers as an accompaniment to their
songs and yodels. Even to-day. when
one sees the graceful young girl seated
at the table practicing her either, and
hears those wild chords. an Alpine
scene raises before the eyes and trans
fers the modern aesthetic interior, in
charming dreamlike transformation. to
rushing streams, pine forests. blue
peaks and snowy mountains. that seem
cry of the Tyrol and Switzerland
which is of all things most lovely
Musical Record.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22

He paused, checked himself by one
supreme effort. and turned to his guests:
valerie is so realistic" he said. con-
strainedly. his fingers clutching at the
acknowledgements glass in his hand;
81 was about to rehearse-but pshaw!
drink with me! Eugene, fill the glassesi
Ladies and gentlemen, let us drink to
liberty"
The toast was drank in silence. The
woman was startled. amazed, little
frightened, and her fellow-guests en-
barrassed. As the object of her raillery
drained his glass he was observed to
stagger slightly and press his hand to
his throat, while the crystal
fell upon the floor in fragments.
Blood welled slowly from his lips and
crimsoned his shirt bosom. He moved
his lips, but no sound came from them.
Then he was borne to a divan and lost
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22
ROMANCE OF A SONG.
a Singer Who Lost His Voice But
Found His Love.


of Eden. There was rich, ripe. mel
low ring in it that fell upon the ear
with a persuasive. caressing touch as
gentle as it was intensifying, as sooth-
ing as it was inspiring. You have
heard such baritones-a very few of
them, for baritones are rare jewels
and are therefore aware of the power
that they WELD, power over the emo
tons and the passions beside which all
other influences pale and fade away
into insignificance.
This baritone, then, this prince
among mortal voices, rose and fell in
mellow cadences upon the soft July
night like that of minstrel from the
skies. 1t came from the dimly-lit Or
gan-loft of a little country church,
whose brown stone walls and mod
est steeple were wreathed with
the ivy-vines of half a century.
The singer was his own accompanist,
and the harmonies evoked from the
splendid old instrument proved him to
be master of it.
On swept the music, in a chaos of
swelling chords and exultant song, the
sounds floating out and away beyond
the mullioned windows and reaching
the ears of half a score of tired labor
ers on their way from the fields The
minstrel is breaking swiftly from one
song into another; now filling the little
edifice with the noble strains of recita-
tive or aria from the ma, ter of oratorio,
following it swiftly with the plaintive,
imprisoned notes of a lay of love and
misery and death. And then. with one
great burst of melody from organ and
voice, transcending in beauty and gran
deur al that has gone before, the sing
er pauses abruptly, leaves the instru-
ment and steps lightly in the silence
and gloom down the dusty little stair
way
He is man. young, slight and grace
full, with eyes and hair of an inky
blackness and possessing that
indefinable air which bespeaks
genius and race. He steps
lightly towards the door. but starts
back in surprise on beholding a young
girl seated in the corner of one of the
great oaken pews. "Why, Genevieve,
you here, DEAR" he says, tenderly.
''Why did you not tell me?"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22
OF HARD LUCK,

Against post there leaned his head
A caliow youth. who sighed and said:
Dosage dyou KNOW OF any trick
To end q fellows Sufferns quick.
You ask me Wye. and don't see through
My cause for Macon this sdol
"'Tis this: loved maiden Nice, sir,
As ever charmed a young mans Iser;
Ipressed my suit with Zealand found
Ny hopes not wholly without ground
ODE assured life seemed to Brighton,
And Dover me skies seemed TO Tighten
az Ava Bangor-count, you see,
And scatter money rather free;
thought that wealth and gen'rous deedf
Unto q maids affections Leeds.
And IL cost me many golden Guinea
When Marietta Phillipine-a
With me, and made me pay the dues
How little for her smile Toulousel
"Yes, was Avon q nice time,
Thinking 1t nothing of crime
To drive upon the summer Rhodes,
Or take Hsckensack the woods
For springtime Po-sies. Happy Tours
But yet want no more Amours.
''One night i thought I'd Colansay
That she should name the wedding day
Then did she Bristol up, and said:
The Dayton which I am to wed
With Mr.. Souiggs is Sunda night;
I'm Malta blame for your sad plight
"I strove my senses to impanel
My words could find no English Channel
So was forced to Bolton run.
couldn't even make pun.
"I felt like those whose luck declines
Like Captain Of some Apprentices
Who drops his smile, is sour and sassie
When not q single Tallahassee.
my tears, don't expect TO dry EN-
I'm Tyre-d OF living, now. Yes, Siami''
"A. w. BelLlU, in Iyd-Bis
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22

Most things are possible to a woman
who loves. WERE ST.. CYRLE.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22

The girl shrinks back slightly as he
takes her hand. 81 could not help
coming, Guy" she answers. softly,
"although you do not like to be dis
turbed. But i did not disturb you, did
li And your music-O Guy, Guy, you
do not know how / love your
She is crying softly. and over the
mans face there fits a look half of
pain, half of WEAKNESS. But he stoops
and r9iscs her. Come, sweetheart, {"
he says, ''let me take you home and
we'll spend the rest of the evening in
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22
trust Mrs. Blenheim

-Spangler-"I trust Mrs. Blenheim
will allow me to renew the acquaint-
ance so pleasantly started at Campo
bello?" Mrs. BleDheim-"Well,h hard
ly. You see. Mr.. Spangler. the young
lady who at the time was occupying
my husbands attentions at Saratoga
proved to be his own cousin, and we
have agreed to quit the playing-off
business on each other (sweetly); good
morning. Nudge.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22

Buttons were at first adopted as
ornaments rather than for use. Thus.
in the paintings of the fourteenth and
succeeding centuries they are frequent
ly seen on the dresses of both sexes.
but without button-holes. and so placed
as to preclude all idea of usefulness.
They were generally made of gold or
silver CHICAGO Nelcs.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22

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Perfect Sight.

As thousands can testify, there Is nothing
20 much to be desired as perfect sight and
perfect sight can only be obtained by using
perfect spectacles- c. q. Taylor, our home
outic,an. exercises great skill and pstience
in fitting these needing spectacles with care
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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22

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This is hours quicker than the fastsst
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The Day Express runs entire trains,
consisting of Day Coaches and Palace
Sleeping Cars from St. Louis to Washing
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the Night Express has Sleepers through
without change. No other line from St.
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service to the National Capital.
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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12
Why co-oneration Par..

Mr. L.aroche Joberut, a French paper
maker who shares profits with his employees,
SAYS that given two mills with equal capital
and similar in every respect, If one gives
shares and profit 10 its workpeople, it is
bound to beat the other out of the field, as it
will have the pick of the workmen." This is
only one Of the many ways in which profit
sharing proves its profitness
Mr. Godih president of the great iron man
ufacturing industrial partnership at Guise,
says that improvements invented and patent
ed by workmen have greatly multiplied since
the cooperative system was applied, although
the profits from them 90 into a common
fund. During recent strike of house paint
ers in Paris the worknen of the Maison lie
claire worked fourteen hours day without
complaint. The employees of a silk dyeing CO
operative company that was threatened with
financial embarrassment voluntarily reduced
their wages from forty-six to thirty-six francs.
There has been no instance in France of a
strike by profit sharing workmen for an in
creased reward, and several profit sharing
employees report that their help do not ask for
frequent holidays as other worknen do.
with the results of long experience be
fore me-" says Mr.. J. c. Patterson, of Hart
ford, Il am convinced that the payment OF
fixed wages to a large number of men carries
with it no inspiring motive to high stand
ing of excellence, either as to the quantity OF
quality of their productions; but, on the con
trary it tends to Indifference and laziness.
To these good reults must be added the gaiI
to society. As Mr.. n. O. Nelson, president
of the n. o. Nelson Manufacturing company
of St Louis, puts it; "We shall supplant wal
with peace, enlarge the aggregate producf
and improve the average living of the whole
people. Work and Wages.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12
Transferring Hysteria.

The chief French surgeons and medical
professors have for some time been carefully
studying the effects of mesrnerism on the fe-
male pati nts Of the Salpetriere hospital, and
NJ Babinski, clinical surgeon of that es-
Enlistment, has just effected series Of ex-
periments the result of which would seem TO
open up a new future for medical science.
n Babins6 tried to prove that certain hys
terical symptoms could be transferred BY the
aid of the magnet from one patient to an
other. He took two subjects, one a dumb
woman afflicted with hysteria and the other
a female who was in state of hypnotic
trance. \ screen was placed between the
two and the hysterical woman was then put
under the influence Of a strong magnet.
After a few moments she was rendered
dumb, while speech was suddenly restored to
the other. NJ Babinsld also effected temper
airy cures Of paralysis in the same manner.
Luckily for his healthier patients, however
their borrowed pains and symptoms did not
last long, and they we're saved from ca
lamity almost similar 10 that which befeI
DR.. Jekyl when he swallowed too much salt.
and irrevocably became Mister Hyde, Parii
| Cor. London Telegraph
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12
some of Luray's wonders.

Three avenues ra6Hate from entrance hall
of the Luray cave in Virginia. As we fol-
lowed one of these, writes a correspondent,
we came to curious crystalline formations
called the flower garden, mainly stalagmites
and it required no great stretch of magma
ton TO see asparagus, caulifiower, potatoes
and cabbages Still further ON we went, the
electric light beyond chasing the shadows and
reminding us that some new and interesting
sight was preserved for us. Descending a long
fight of stairs we came to skeleton gorge
Thirty feet above US frowns an awful ledge
ON level with other portions of the cave,
and it is supposed that some prehistoric
man exploring the cave stepped off and
persisted in the Plutonian gloom. The
guide pointed out portions of the skull, fore
arm and some small bones of a human being.
An opportunity of much value is here
afforded the student, for the bones are firmly
imbedded in the limestone rock. Professor
E. R. Reynolds, of the Smithsonian institu-
ton, says that at the present rate at which
the formation is progressing these bones must
have lain there at least 500 years. There is a
story current that Confederate soldier wan
dered into the cave twenty years ago and
persisted there, but the story is, of course,
absurd, as the cave was not discovered. How
ever. our guide told us that each Decoration
day for several years past some of the roman
tic people of the town place wreaths upon the
| spot where the bones lie, portion of the
| finty rock
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12
Demand for Domestic service.

The last census showed that there were
93S go women employed in domestic service
in the United States But this does not mean
that in 1880 there was a demand for only 93S, :
go women in such employment. On the
contrary. at the high wages now current land
these wages, it must be masing
allowance for board and lodging-are higher
than those received by tens of thousands Of
female school teachers, copyists, tyFewrlters,
etc. there is a large unsatisfied demand Be
sides, if greater competition were TO reduce
the wages 20 a plane more consonant with the
pay of skilled female labor the present de
nland for domestic service would be vastly in
creased. If "hired help could be hired for
half what il now costs tand at that rate il
would DO well remunerated III comparison
with other employments1, host of families
especially in the country, would keep servants
who now feel it impossible so to do.
There is not particle of doubt that at the
ruling rates tens of thousands Of women car
easily find places. There is as little doubt that
at smaller but still good wages the number Of
women who could secure good employment IL
the kitchen under comfortable conditions ex
ceeds the whole number of workingwomen il
New York, whose misery is periodically SCI
forth by the newspapers. In other words
this misery might practically be ended by th'
victims themselves if they would only give VI
trying to make living at dying rates in over
| crowded industries, and enter a field wher'
they are sure of steady work at good pay
| New York Post
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12

Says Mrs. Martha J. Coston: II had a
capital opportunity to see her. 1t was at the
launching of the Victoria, at which was in
vited to be present by the Duke of Somerset
A brilliant company was assembled awaiting
her majesty. At last there was a commotion,
and l supposed the queen was coming. l
looked earnestly for some appearances of
royalty, but only saw stout elderly lady,
whose self and toilet thought would have
made a good caricature for Punch as The
British Matron Abroad. She was very short,
both of stature and breath, and her face was
red and cross. Her toilet consisted of large
gayly plaided poplin, 50 short in the skirt as
to expose the tops of pair of heavy walking
shoes. A long, loose velvet sack fitted so
tightly over the dress that it gave the wearer's
figure barrel-ike appearance; and dark
green hat of uncut velvet, its plumage drag
gled by rain and blown by the wind, was
worn ON a head that did not suggest ia
miliarity with a crown; but the finishing
blemish was a huge muff of royal ermine
suspended around the lady's fat neck by a
cord, and, which not being in use, wabbled
helplessly back and forth over her well
rounded body
"'Who is that funny, fussy womanp asked
laughingly of my naval escort, British of
ficer
Good heavens, madam, said he. in a low
voice, that is our gracious sovereign -
Frank G.. Carpenter
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12
An American dentist in England.

The American dentist has become almost
as fixed an institution in England as the
French hairdresser or the German waiter.
There are probably two score in London
alone, commanding patronage which would
open the eyes of their professional brethren
at home. An American who recently visited
wealthy gentleman in one of the principal
provincial cities says: Among the callers at
the house was the principal dentist of the
town. q Massachusetts, man. After he had
gone my host, also an American, eulogized
him as one of the most fervent patriots he
knew Hes only living here until he can
save enough money to return 20 the states
and live there without practicing. Doesn't
he hate the English, though! Why, do you
know he hunts through the papers here for
all the cases of wife beating and beastly things
generally he can find, and makes notes of
| them. Then just as soon as he gets am Eng
| lish man or woman into his chair, with his
instruments in the patients mouth, he begins
about British crime and goes through his
| whole list to prove the inferiority of this
| country to America" Il should think be
| would drive all his customers away" said.
| @Oh. no, they've got to come to him, and he
| knows it, He's the only man in the county
who knows tooth from cribbage peg. y
| London Letter.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12

Woodite is name suggested for a new
compound of caoutchouc invented in England.
This novel material possesses all the elasticity
of india rubber, with the additional advan-
tage of being uninfammable and uninjurabIe
by salt water. 1t does not suffer deterioration
if exposed TO the weather and cannot posi-
bly, be set ON fire. The most prominent use for
woodite is as a covering for men-of-war and
torpedo boats. 1t has the quality of allowing
a projectile to pass through it without inf1ict
ing upon it more than a small puncture. The
material around the hole gives way to permit
the passage of a shot, and Immediately returns
TO its old position, closing the hole so COM
pletely that there remains nothing but a spot
on either surface, into which lead pencil
can be pushed with difficulty, but which is
impervious to water
At hartford in the course OF some expert
ments, three 6-pound solid shots 215inches in
diameter were fired at right angles at target
formed of sc S7inch tubes OF woodite mounted
on 25S Inch wrought iron plate All passed
completely through, punching pieces out of
the back plate, but the woodite suffered SC
little injury that close scrutiny was required
to find the marks of the shots, which are only
Il inch to 81 inch in diameter and are perfectly
closed. The material may be applied as a
lining for partitions in vessels and many other
purposes.-New York Mail and Express
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12
The Indians Glass Eve.

A tall, lean Indian who passed through Chi
cago some time ago on his way back to the
reservation from a visit to Washington, at
tracted a great deal of attention by his weird
and unearthly appearance. he was aswarthy
fellow, with black hair and large black eye,
but the other eye was glass, bright blue,
and gazed into vacancy with>a cold. cerulean
stare that was strange to behold. The Indian
seemed proud of his dissimilar eyes, and he
was looked up to with great respect and awe
by the other savages with him His appear
ance was explained by army officer who
was in town last week. He also has only one
good eye but the artificial organ looks natu-
raj and healthy. One day at the war Office
he took out the game eye, after the manner
of men who own them, and wiping it of,
slipped it back carelessly into the socket. The
Indian saw the performance, and was much
struck by it. He asked the officer If be could
see with the glass eye. and the officer face
tiously told him he could. "Gimme one
said the Indian, and the army man went into
his trunk, where he kept supply, and pro-
duced one. The Indian damned it into the
place where the natural eye used to be, and
then stalked away like an appalition from
the lower regions. He never once thought Of
taking the eye out once he had it in, and he
stoutly maintained that he could see with it
as well as with the ther.-Chicago News.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12

Atlantic ana Pacifc oceans OF billoufng t0y.
II was q great day when Aurelian, the
Roman emperor. came back from his victor
les In the front Of the procession were
wild beasts from all LANDS, 1000
cladiators richly clad, wagon loads Of
crowns presented by conquered cities: among
the captiyes. Syrians, Egyptians. Goths,
VandaIs. Sarrnatiars, Franks: and Zenobia,
the beautiful captive queen, on foot in chains
of gold that slave had to help her carry, and
Jewels under the weight of which she almost
tainted. And then came the chariot Of Au-
relian drawn by four elephants in gorgeous
cauarison and followed by the Roman senate
and the Roman army, and from dawn till dark
the procession was passing Rome in all her
history never sa " anything more magnificent
But how much greater the day when our con-
uueror. Jesus snail ride under the triumphai
arches Of heaven; his captives. hand or foot
or in chariots, all the kingdoms Of earth and
heaven; in procession the armies celestial on
white horses. Rambling artillery Of thunder
bolts never again to he unlimbered King
doTns in line centuries in line sanity cherubic,
| seraphic, archangelic splendors in line, and
| Christ seated on one great rolling hosanna,
| made out of all hallelujahs of all worlds, Sall
| CRY haiti to the procession And not forget
| ting even the humblest in all the reach of his
o1nnipresence, he shall rise, and then and
there. his work done and his glory consum-
mated, proceed amid an ocstacy such as
neither mortal nor immortal ever imagined,
to divide the spoil
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12
Contarious,ess of Copsumption,

A young man who had contracted bron-
chitis married a healthy woman. Within a
year he died of consumption; not long after
ward his widows lungs were found TO be
fatally diseased, and their child speedily fol-
lowed them. One of their neighbors, robust
young woman, was suddenly attacked with
the same disease. While she had called re-
peatedly at the house of the consumptive
family, she had never remained in the sick
room over night; but she had eaten chickens
which had been killed on their farm. As it
was reported that several of these fowls had
died prematurely, the medical authorities de-
cided to have other chickens killed and ex-
| amined. 1t was then discovered that the
fowls had contracted consumption, their
| livers containing the bacilh now recognized
as characteristic of the disease. This is one
Of the most remarkable stories ever vouched
for by a medical journal,-French Medical
| Journal.